The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/15 at 18:00 EST

Episode Date: February 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/15 at 18:00 EST

When a body is discovered 10 miles out to sea, it sparks a mind-blowing police investigation. There's a man living in this address in the name of a deceased. He's one of the most wanted men in the world. This isn't really happening. Officers are finding large sums of money. It's a tale of murder, skullduggery and international intrigue. So who really is he? I'm Sam Mullins and this is Sea of Lies from CBC's Uncovered, available now.

From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood. Conservative leader Pierre Polyev spoke at his party's Flag Day rally in Ottawa. He took aim at US President Donald Trump and his attacks on Canada. America has leverage, and we have leverage. I will use that leverage. We will respond dollar for dollar. Yes, we will carefully target American goods to maximize the impact on Americans

while minimizing the impact on ourselves. But Poliev also took aim at one of the frontrunners in the race for the liberal leadership, claiming Mark Carney will not put Canada first. For more than 18 months, the party had a double-digit lead over the liberals in national polls, but that has shifted recently. A Leger poll this week suggests a liberal party led by Carney would be in a dead heat, with the conservativesatives at 38%. Some Canadian cities are more vulnerable to U.S. tariffs than others. The Canadian Chamber of Commerce created a tool to assess which are at the highest risk.

Andrew DiCapua is principal economist at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. He says the calculation is based on two components. One of them is export intensity for cities across the country. So that's how much of their goods exports are headed to the United States as a share of their local economies. And then we also look at U.S. dependency.

So how much of their overall exports are headed to the United States? The U.S. Tariff Exposure Index listed St. John, New Brunswick as the most vulnerable city because of its oil refinery making up a sizable chunk of the city's exports to the U.S. Calgary came in second and five cities in southern Ontario were in the top 10. At an Israeli army base, Segey Dekelheim falls into his wife's arms learning the name of their youngest daughter for the first time. She was born when he was in Hamas captivity.

He is one of three Israeli men released today. They didn't look as emaciated as last weekend's release hostages, but Israel's Ministry of Health says they face a complex process of rehabilitation. Their release was the latest under the Gaza ceasefire agreement and was accompanied by the release of 369 Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Gaza. The freed Palestinians were welcomed home by family and friends cheering around their bus. Some were lifted on shoulders and paraded through the crowd.

This round of hostage prisoner exchange comes after mediation by Egypt and Qatar that helped keep the fragile ceasefire from falling apart. The minimum wage in Newfoundland and Labrador is going up 40 cents to 16 dollars an hour. The Labour minister says it will go into effect on April 1st, but the Federation of Labor says that's not enough. Two Loblaw stores in Abbotsford, B.C. are asking staff to wear body cams. The company says the move is in response to increasing thefts and violence. As Leanne Yu reports, this new method of surveillance comes with concerns as well as benefits.

Retail crime and violent incidents. That's what LaBla Company says is behind strapping up staff with body cams. Employees at a shoppers drug mart and a real Canadian superstore in Abbotsford are now wearing the devices. It comes after a pilot program in some Calgary and Saskatoon stores last year. Associate SFU Criminology Professor Brian Keney sees pros and cons. I would expect there would be a baseline improvement over behavior if somehow the people that are about to do the behavior stop and think that, hey, there's a camera there. But he says he's concerned about how companies would use and store the data, including whether it's used to monitor staff behavior. In a statement, LaBla assures customers will see in-store signage about the use of body cams, along with prominent stickers on the cameras

themselves. LaBla plans to further expand the surveillance program to additional stores across Canada. Lian Yu, CBC News, Vancouver. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.